Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

No running today.  More back problems.  Not like what I went through last summer with my disks, but more muscular.  Probably from sitting in literally 8 hours of Stake Conference and High Council meetings over the weekend.  40 minutes at the gym at 5:00 a.m. 20 min. elliptical and 20 min. recumbent cycling.

5:00 a.m.  40 minutes at the gym.  20 min. elliptical warm-up and then 20 min. test run on the treadmill.  Back pain is tolerable.  Really aggravated by sitting.

6:00 p.m.  5 mile run with Thurman in 46:10.  Back felt great after about a mile.  It's quite a relief to know it is not the same type of pain I had last year at Boston that caused me to go through the MRI and cortisone injections.  Very encouraging.  Hamstrings are extremely tight, however.  Probably a major contributing factor. 

5:00 a.m.  20 minutes lt. upper body weight reps.  3 x 15 x 6 machines.  20 minutes recumbent cycling.

600 a.m.  5 miles in 47:13 along Skyline route to gate and back via Upland Drive. 

5:00 a.m.  40 minutes at the gym.   20/20 elliptical/recumbent cycling.

6:15 p.m.  5.7 miles easy, up Settlement Canyon to Legion Park and back to Main and 200 S. and home.  With Thurman. 

2:30 p.m.  Skyline route to Knottingham, down 5th Street, past East Elementary to Highland and back home via 100 S.  Easy running, nice weather.

8:00 a.m.  St. George Virgin River Trail.  Nice easy run.  From Abbey Inn down to the trail and east to end of trail and back.  First time I've taken it that far in that direction.  Trail has been repaired in about 4 places and is still marked closed at the trail heads, so it was pretty empty.